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pat_k

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26. Standing as the embodiment of the shared values that evolved as we've

Wed Jun 17, 2026, 12:21 AM

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... muddled along the path to a more perfect union.

True patriots.

The Republican project of the past 40 years has been hellbent on taking us backward. The culmination is Trump. I think they overshot. Anger at the perverse consequences of the obscene concentration of wealth and corruption is growing. We may be at a turning point like the backlash against the gilded age in the1890's or the backlash against the concentrated wealth of the 1920's that brought us the new deal (as Heather Cox Richardson often discusses).

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